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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea

21 November 2021 Luca Zaia, president of the Veneto Region, speaking on Fabio Fazio's 'Che Tempo Che Fa' broadcast on Rai 3, addressed the main issues related to the Coronavirus pandemic and its containment. "It's not over, we are still in a pandemic, there is concern. There is a resurgence of the infected, obviously today's scenario is new, the hospital impact is different and 80% of those in intensive care are not vaccinated, "he said. "It is undeniable that the vaccine has created a great wall for the spread of the virus", he continued, but we must dialogue with those who have not yet been vaccinated, otherwise "you lose the game".



In view of the meeting that will take place at the beginning of the week between the Regions and the Government on the new measures that the Executive is preparing to adopt to deal with the rise in infections, including the

'strengthened'

Green Pass

, Zaia said: "The Regions they will meet on Monday or Tuesday, at most, with the Government and I think the point of fall is that we cannot close "," it will mean that we will aim for a reinforced Green Pass, I imagine in the orange or red zone that the vaccinated will be able to access certain services , such as restaurants, for example, and the unvaccinated will have limitations. This is an issue that we share as regional presidents, it is a great concern, we must safeguard health on the one hand and the economy on the other ".

About the



vaccination obligation

he assessed that this does not lead to 100% of the vaccinated: "One hundred per cent does not exist in any campaign, because there is always a part that opposes it out of rebellion or fear", underlining the need for "more institutional information against fake news". Zaia then added: "What do we mean by obligation? Bring people with the public force to get the vaccine? The obligation was introduced for 11 vaccines by Minister Lorenzin in 2017 and I am not aware that all parents immunize their children" , also observing: "We have gone from a phase in which we were all singing on the terraces, to a phase in which we were all afraid of dying, to a phase in which we are all Nobel Prize winners for medicine." "I don't like No Vax," he continued. "Their freedom ends when they put the health of others at risk. The squares full of people without masks are denial commercials ". For the Governor of Veneto," we must take note on the one hand that we must not close, and on the other, protect those who have been vaccinated ".



On the issue of

migrants

on the border between Belarus and Poland and on the children present there, he said: "The children behind the barbed wire on the Belarusian-Polish border? It is the barbed wire that is in the wrong place." helping people in difficulty with no ifs and buts, then in this country we pay the price of someone who has behaved badly, but that barbed wire in front of children should no longer be used anywhere ".



On the

League

he explained that it is a large party with varied cultural and ideological extractions: "If there is a governing League that looks to the EPP and another that instead looks to Orbán's right? I would say that there is a League, period" . "The League is the League, but it is also true that it is a great party, it is the fusion of several regional leagues. The social, cultural and even ideological backgrounds are varied. Me more for the EPP or for Orbán? Honestly, these European matches. I have never dealt with it. Of course I am an administrator and I am a real person ".



About the

election of the President of the Republic and the name of Mario Draghi as candidate

 he specified: "From here to February there is an ice age, in February I will be able to tell you more. I supported the birth of the Draghi government but we will have to understand what Draghi will want to do. If he decides to start this new adventure, it is essential that the election is clear and unanimous since it goes to Palazzo Chigi, otherwise we risk that if the game goes badly we have neither the President of the Republic nor the Prime Minister ".

During the program Zaia presented her book 'Ragioniamoci sopra'.